***Official** West Indies in Pakistan

[Fusion]

Man this pitch looks brutal to bowl on. I feel bad for the bowlers who'll have to slave away on this pitch. I do believe Yousaf has a great chance of breaking Viv's record for most runs in a calendar year. He needs just 149 and on this pitch should get that in the first innings itself!

 

[Fusion]

Hafeez bowled. Great delivery by Collymore.

 

[oz_fan]

Tea on day 1. Pakistan 174/3 with Yousuf on 67 and just 86 runs away from Viv's record.

 

[Armadillo]

Rumour has it the result of Shoaib and Asif's appeal will be announced after the end of the day's play.

 

[magsi23]

Pakistan win the toss and elect to bat. Apparently this should be a good batting pitch.

No change in the Pakistan team. A bit surprised by that. I thought Razzaq might be excluded.

Why should he be excluded? he scored 80 odd in the last game?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Why should he be excluded? he scored 80 odd in the last game?

Because he's bowled a load of tosh in the series to date? Maybe... just maybe... he's not picked as a specialist batsman. Considering that there are only 2 other seamers in the team, I dare say he's not picked on his batting at all.

 

[magsi23]

Because he's bowled a load of tosh in the series to date? Maybe... just maybe... he's not picked as a specialist batsman. Considering that there are only 2 other seamers in the team, I dare say he's not picked on his batting at all.

yeh but who would you replace him with, Sami? dont think so he is better than Sami anyway plus as you said better batsmen

 

[BhupinderSingh]

yeh but who would you replace him with, Sami? dont think so he is better than Sami anyway plus as you said better batsmen

Samiullah Niazi
Mohammad Irshad
Yasir Arafat
Najaf Shah
Abdul Rauf
Riaz Afridi

And plenty of others who would easily make the side on their bowling ahead of Abdul Razzaq.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Yousuf three runs short of his 8th century for the year, which would give him the record ahead of Richards and Aravinda. He needs 149 to also break Viv's run scoring record.

 

[Xuhaib]

Good effort by MoYo the pitch is certainly not a road the ball is stopping and the bowlers are getting good swing thanks to the famous Karachi sea-breeze.

 

[magsi23]

Samiullah Niazi
Mohammad Irshad
Yasir Arafat
Najaf Shah
Abdul Rauf
Riaz Afridi

And plenty of others who would easily make the side on their bowling ahead of Abdul Razzaq.

Yeh but Razzaq is far better allrounder then all of these guys, no one is saying that he is a strike bowler

 

[Dravid]

8th 100 for Yousuf, 3rd of the series. No doubt the man of the series.

 

[magsi23]

man of the year IMO, what an year he is having 1st Pakistani to do so, well done Yo

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Gone for 102. He'll need 47 runs in the second innings to beat Viv's record. He's already the closest anyone has been, though. It's the fourth time someone has passed 1,500 runs in a year, with Yousuf now in second ahead of Ponting in 2005 and 2003 in 3rd and 4th.

 

[Dravid]

Anyone know if all 15 of the remaining overs will be bowled? Play is suppose to end in 10 mins, and still 15 overs of the 90 in the day have to be bowled.

 

[nightprowler10]

Well, Pakistan are going almost on par with the average first inning total in Karachi. I think Pakistan did well not to lose early wickets, and the one time we didn't our middle order (barr Yousuf) failed.

Yousuf

I was watching the score at work until less than an hour ago and MoYo was on 99*. I hurried back home just to see if he made it.

 

[silentstriker]

Yousuf is in absolutely insane form. Wow.

 

[TT Boy]

Inzamam got out to Daren Ganga, Jesus that's rather embarrassing. Ganga only has three first class wickets before today.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

8th 100 for Yousuf, 3rd of the series. No doubt the man of the series.

Lara can contest that still.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yousuf